Afternoon Play: Harpo Goes to Leningrad

Thu 4th May 2006, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM

By Lee Pressman

The true story of Harpo Marx's 1933 tour of Russia.
Misunderstood as a comic, arrested as a terrorist, and enlisted as a spy, Harpo finds himself alone in a strange country with only his burly female minder for company.

Producer/Director Celia de Wolff

Harpo....Garrick Hagon

Woollcott....Philip Voss

Bullitt....William Hope

Malekinov....Sarah Badel

Captain/Vasiliev....Ian Masters

Director/Chico....Simon Treves

Groucho/Colonel....Keith Drinkel

Reporter/Agent 2....Ian Shaw

Inspector/Bukin/Agent 1....Sam Dale

Dorothy Parker/Ponomarkenko....Rachel Atkins

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